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National Museum of Ethnology
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About: National Museum of Ethnology is a archive organization based out in Leiden, Netherlands. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Colocasia esculenta & Population. The organization has 91 authors who have published 165 publications receiving 2194 citations.
Topics: Colocasia esculenta, Population, Agriculture, Pottery, Southeast asian
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University of Oxford1, Uppsala University2, Durham University3, University of Auckland4, Australian National University5, University of Hawaii at Manoa6, University of Adelaide7, Rural Development Administration8, National University of Malaysia9, National Museum of Ethnology10, University of California, Berkeley11, Academia Sinica12, University of New England (Australia)13, University of York14, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research15, Naval Facilities Engineering Command16, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences17
TL;DR: Archeological and genetic evidence shows these pigs were certainly introduced to islands east of the Wallace Line, including New Guinea, and that so-called “wild” pigs within this region are most likely feral descendants of domestic pigs introduced by early agriculturalists.
Abstract: Human settlement of Oceania marked the culmination of a global colonization process that began when humans first left Africa at least 90,000 years ago. The precise origins and dispersal routes of the Austronesian peoples and the associated Lapita culture remain contentious, and numerous disparate models of dispersal (based primarily on linguistic, genetic, and archeological data) have been proposed. Here, through the use of mtDNA from 781 modern and ancient Sus specimens, we provide evidence for an early human-mediated translocation of the Sulawesi warty pig (Sus celebensis) to Flores and Timor and two later separate human-mediated dispersals of domestic pig (Sus scrofa) through Island Southeast Asia into Oceania. Of the later dispersal routes, one is unequivocally associated with the Neolithic (Lapita) and later Polynesian migrations and links modern and archeological Javan, Sumatran, Wallacean, and Oceanic pigs with mainland Southeast Asian S. scrofa. Archeological and genetic evidence shows these pigs were certainly introduced to islands east of the Wallace Line, including New Guinea, and that so-called "wild" pigs within this region are most likely feral descendants of domestic pigs introduced by early agriculturalists. The other later pig dispersal links mainland East Asian pigs to western Micronesia, Taiwan, and the Philippines. These results provide important data with which to test current models for human dispersal in the region.
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University of New England (Australia)1, University of Otago2, University of Guam3, Florida Museum of Natural History4, University of Florida5, Griffith University6, National Museum of Ethnology7, University of Alabama at Birmingham8, University of California, Berkeley9, University of Auckland10, Autonomous University of Madrid11, University of Georgia12
TL;DR: The results from the ancient DNA analyses of forty-eight archaeologically derived chicken bones provide support for archaeological hypotheses about the prehistoric human transport of chickens and lead to the proposal of four hypotheses which will require further scrutiny and rigorous future testing.
Abstract: Data from morphology, linguistics, history, and archaeology have all been used to trace the dispersal of chickens from Asian domestication centers to their current global distribution. Each provides a unique perspective which can aid in the reconstruction of prehistory. This study expands on previous investigations by adding a temporal component from ancient DNA and, in some cases, direct dating of bones of individual chickens from a variety of sites in Europe, the Pacific, and the Americas. The results from the ancient DNA analyses of forty-eight archaeologically derived chicken bones provide support for archaeological hypotheses about the prehistoric human transport of chickens. Haplogroup E mtDNA signatures have been amplified from directly dated samples originating in Europe at 1000 B.P. and in the Pacific at 3000 B.P. indicating multiple prehistoric dispersals from a single Asian centre. These two dispersal pathways converged in the Americas where chickens were introduced both by Polynesians and later by Europeans. The results of this study also highlight the inappropriate application of the small stretch of D-loop, traditionally amplified for use in phylogenetic studies, to understanding discrete episodes of chicken translocation in the past. The results of this study lead to the proposal of four hypotheses which will require further scrutiny and rigorous future testing.
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TL;DR: Despite the intense drought, the large root system provided a basis for quick recovery of AGP to pre-drought levels without a shift to a drier equilibrium community, suggesting that the response time scales differed among species.
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TL;DR: The extent of genome-wide association between direct and inverted repeats, indels, and substitutions in these aroid chloroplast genomes is reported and it is suggested that alternative but not mutually exclusive hypotheses explain the mutational dynamics of chloropLast genome evolution.
Abstract: A characteristic feature of eukaryote and prokaryote genomes is the co-occurrence of nucleotide substitution and insertion/deletion (indel) mutations. Although similar observations have also been made for chloroplast DNA, genome-wide associations have not been reported. We determined the chloroplast genome sequences for two morphotypes of taro (Colocasia esculenta; family Araceae) and compared these with four publicly available aroid chloroplast genomes. Here, we report the extent of genome-wide association between direct and inverted repeats, indels, and substitutions in these aroid chloroplast genomes. We suggest that alternative but not mutually exclusive hypotheses explain the mutational dynamics of chloroplast genome evolution.
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TL;DR: Possible errors in estimating the dietary isotopic composition and minor modifications of dietary habits revealed by food consumption surveys could explain most of the discrepancies, but the great enrichment of 15N found in one of the villages remains unexplained.
Abstract: The carbon and nitrogen stable isotopic composition of the scalp hair and diet of Gidra-speaking people in four villages in Papua New Guinea is presented. The isotopic composition of hair was measured, while that of the diet was estimated from food consumption survey data and the measured isotopic composition and protein and carbohydrate contents of food items. The average isotopic ratios of the hair samples and of the diet varied among the four study villages, which were selected because of their diverse ecological settings. Comparison was made between hair and calculated dietary isotopic compositions. Two of the four diet-hair enrichment values obtained for 13C (+1.8 and 2.2%‰) were similar to those previously reported (1.4–2.0%‰), but the other two values (3.7 and 4.8%) were greater than in earlier reports. 15N enrichment was systematically greater (by 1%‰) than reported values (∼4.3%‰) except for one village, where a much greater enrichment (6.9%‰) was found. The factors potentially relevant to these deviations are discussed. Possible errors in estimating the dietary isotopic composition and minor modifications of dietary habits revealed by food consumption surveys could explain most of the discrepancies. However, the great enrichment of 15N found in one of the villages remains unexplained. © 1996 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Masato Shinoda | 34 | 202 | 3585 |
W. de Jong | 23 | 71 | 1602 |
Peter J. Matthews | 17 | 43 | 762 |
Tomoya Akimichi | 14 | 37 | 595 |
Rintaro Ono | 14 | 57 | 765 |
Michiko Intoh | 13 | 20 | 743 |
Nobuhiro Kishigami | 9 | 27 | 244 |
Kazunobu Ikeya | 8 | 37 | 221 |
Naoko Sonoda | 8 | 20 | 205 |
Yuji Seki | 7 | 21 | 105 |
Kenneth Ruddle | 5 | 6 | 129 |
Nanami Suzuki | 5 | 14 | 100 |
Keiko Sagara | 4 | 8 | 29 |
Yasunori Yamamoto | 4 | 5 | 60 |
Hirochika Nakamaki | 4 | 11 | 54 |